TPDL 2016 - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL)

The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2016 will take place in Hannover, Germany on September 5-9, 2016. The conference will be jointly organized by the L3S Research Center and the German National Library of Science and Technology.
2016 is not only the 20th edition of the conference; it is also the 300th anniversary of the death of the German polymath and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in Hannover.
Aims and scope
Valuable and rapidly increasing volumes of data are created or transformed into digital form by all fields of scientific, educational, cultural, and governmental and industry activities. For this purpose the digital libraries community has developed long-term and interdisciplinary research agendas, providing significant results, such as development of Digital Libraries, solving practical problems, accommodating research data and satisfying the needs of specific user communities.
The advent of the technologies that enhance the exchange of information with rich semantics is of particular interest in the community. Information providers inter-link their metadata with user contributed data and offer new services outlooking to the development of a web of data and addressing the interoperability and long-term preservation challenges.
TPDL 2016 under the general theme “Overcoming the Limits of Digital Archives”, invites submissions for scientific and research work in the following categories: Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters and Demonstrations, Workshops and Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium.
Industry submissions are especially welcome, and a dedicated conference track is designed for them.
Topics
General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Connecting digital libraries
exploring semantic web and linked data
data mining and extraction of structure from networked information
multilingual information retrieval
temporal aspects
metadata aggregation models
interoperability and information integration
ontologies and knowledge organization systems, networked information
applications of digital libraries
Practice of digital libraries
quality assurance in digital libraries
scalability and high availability of digital libraries
infrastructures supporting content processing
user studies for and evaluation of digital library systems and applications
large scale digital preservation infrastructures for cultural heritage
digital curation
multimedia information management and retrieval
user interfaces and user experience
Digital libraries in science
digital humanities
scholarly primitives
research data and virtual organizations
visualisation in digital libraries
digital libraries as source of big data for humanities
Users, communities, personal data
social networking, web 2.0 and collaborative interfaces in digital libraries
social-technical perspectives of digital information
user mobility and context awareness in information access
personal information management and personal digital libraries
long term preservation in personal digital libraries
community-driven digital libraries
Specialized Track
Leibniz Track on Digital Humanities (TPDL-DH)
e-Infrastructures Track (TPDL-eInfra)
Creativity and Multimedia Libraries Track (TPDL-Crea&MM)